The Daily MuckGov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) really had a bad day Friday. Not only was she found to have abused her gubernatorial powers in a legislative report on the Trooper-Gate scandal, but she was also ordered by an Alaskan Superior Court judge to preserve her private emails until a lawsuit demanding the emails be made public is resolved. (Anchorage Daily News)
A Louisiana state senator pled guilty Friday to one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Derrick Shepherd (D) gave a weepy apology for helping Gwendolyn Joseph Moyo launder $141,000 in checks. Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) who is also accused of unrelated bribery and racketeering, made an appearance in Shepherd’s indictment as an unidentified co-conspirator. (AP)
Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) is taking heat for a tax payer financed trip he took to Alaska in 2004. Sununu claims he took the trip in order to attend a field hearing for the Senate Appropriations Committee, which he was not even a member of. While in Alaska, after attending the hearing, Sununu took the time to go on a fishing trip hosted by none other than Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). (Nashua Telegraph)
Yet another development in the ongoing saga of Defense Contractors Behaving Badly: Army investigators are looking into accusations that contractor Combat Support Associates overcharged the government for maintenance and security work. The contractor has earned over $2 billion for services in Iraq. (AP)
As if being a detainee at Guanatanamo weren’t hard enough, a U.S. military judge ruled that defendants are not allowed internet access. The infamous detainee and confessed September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed attempted to get internet access for himself and his co-defendants in order to review their case. Mohammed previously chose to act as his own lawyer in the case. (AP)
J. Edgar Hoover may be long dead, but news of his practices while head of the FBI keeps coming out. Newly released documents show that Hoover’s FBI carefully tracked columnist and Hoover critic Jack Anderson, a man Hoover called “a jackal” with a mind “lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures.” Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote stories on scandals such as Watergate and Iran-Contra. (AP)
The New York Times maps out the moves of an army engineer and his assistant who gamed the system of military contracts, manipulating what one lawyer called the “incestuous relationship between the military, politicians and contractors” Freud he was not, but Ike still knew something about complexes. (New York Times)
The LA Times takes a closer look at Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld, the military prosecutor who resigned from his post in Guantanamo last month. Vandeveld cited ethical qualms. (LA Times)
